Time Quotes

We all get the same 24 hours. These quotes explore what we do with them and why it matters.

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"Time is the currency we cannot earn back or exchange."
Hermann Muller
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"The passage of time reveals which investments truly mattered most."
Hermann Muller
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"Each moment that passes is an opportunity forever lost if ignored."
Hermann Muller
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"Time is the dimension in which life writes its story on the canvas of matter."
Max Delbrück
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"In the genes lies the memory of all things past."
Wilhelm Johannsen
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"Heredity is the dialogue between past and future."
Wilhelm Johannsen
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"Time in science is measured not in years, but in discoveries."
Thomas Hunt Morgan
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"Time spent observing is time spent in dialogue with creation."
Sydney Brenner
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"Time spent in careful observation is never wasted; it is invested in discovery."
Oswald Avery
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"In time, persistence conquers what force never could."
Oswald Avery
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"Time reveals what impatience obscures in the world of molecular biology."
Alfred Hershey
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"Time, in the laboratory, is both the enemy of impatience and the teacher of wisdom."
Alfred Hershey
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"To understand life, we must think in terms of millions of years, not mere decades."
Hermann Muller
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"Every species is the temporary victor in an eternal competition."
Hermann Muller
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"Evolution shows us that improvement requires both competition and time."
Hermann Muller
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"Every trait has a history written in the ancestry of the organism"
Wilhelm Johannsen
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"Every plant reveals through its ancestry the path of its descent"
Wilhelm Johannsen
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"Every organism carries within it the record of its heredity"
Wilhelm Johannsen
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"Time reveals all secrets to those who wait"
Hugo de Vries
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"Time is the canvas upon which evolution paints"
Hugo de Vries
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"Time spent in careful observation is never time wasted."
Oswald Avery
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"Each generation carries forward the achievements and limitations of those before it."
Thomas Hunt Morgan
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"Understanding heredity requires that we think across generations, not merely within our own lifetime."
Thomas Hunt Morgan
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"Inheritance is the thread that connects ancestor to descendant across the chasm of time."
Thomas Hunt Morgan
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"In inheritance lies the secret of how the past becomes prologue to the future."
Thomas Hunt Morgan
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"Time itself is a teacher of profound lessons."
Richard Owen
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"The past lives in every present moment."
Richard Owen
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"Life's journey spans epochs, not moments."
Richard Owen
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"In every fossil lies a moment frozen in time."
Richard Owen
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"Time is the judge of all theories."
Jean-Baptiste Lamarck